Example sentences of "and a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 2 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 3 | Four and a half years , he wrote . |
| 4 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 5 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 6 | Capriati spent two and a half years under the tutelage . |
| 7 | According to Commission sources , the US negotiators have recently offered the EC 7 per cent of the market in a new agreement to run for two and a half years . |
| 8 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 9 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 10 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 11 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 12 | LIQUIDATORS of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , which crashed seven and a half years ago with debts of £42.4m , said last night they would be paying more than 10p in the pound to the 4,000 mainly small investors who lost money . |
| 13 | He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse . |
| 14 | Experience in the past two and a half years has shown both the general effectiveness of such schemes and the need for a much wider extension of them . |
| 15 | As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 17 | He was requested by Prime Minister James Callaghan to head a commission that looked into the future of the engineering profession in Britain , which kept him occupied for two and a half years . |
| 18 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 19 | After my marriage I used to go to Africa every one and a half years or so . |
| 20 | Two and a half years and four churches later my Dholuo had improved but my back had suffered from a fall through a ceiling and too much carrying of cement ! |
| 21 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 22 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 23 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 24 | Yet now , three and a half years after Debbie was discharged from hospital , her mother has written a letter to the authorities , bitterly criticising them for ‘ bad planning , no comprehension and dismissive attitudes ’ . |
| 25 | Six months after the Guardian article appeared , two and a half years after she was waved out of their hospital , South Manchester health authority finally agreed to supply a psychologist for two hours a week . |
| 26 | It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again . |
| 27 | TWO and a half years after she made national headlines with her searing attack on George Bush at the 1988 Democratic national convention , Ann Richards was inaugurated as Texas 's 45th governor on January 15th . |
| 28 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 29 | For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike . |
| 30 | Apart from the ‘ Hands off Russia ’ campaign of 1920 he feels that the British working class had never thought or acted internationally and , ‘ For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided even with a single strike . ’ |